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Head for an Eye: Revenge in the Cambodian Genocide
Alexander Laban Hinton
More
than one and one half million Cambodians died from disease,
starvation, overwork, and execution under Khmer Rouge
rule (1975-79). To help redress the lack of anthropological
research on the origins of such large-scale genocides,
in this article I explore how the Cambodian cultural model
of disproportionate revenge, in combination with Communist
Party ideology, provided a cultural template for the extreme
violence that took place during this period. [genocide,
Cambodia, Khmer Rouge, violence, revenge, cultural models,
Marxist ideology]
Infinity
within the Brackets
Annelise Riles
The
ethnographic subjects of this article are UN-sponsored
international conferences and their legal documents. Drawing
upon fieldwork among Fiji delegates at these conferences,
in this article I demonstrate the centrality of matters
of form, as distinct from questions of "meaning," in the
negotiation of international agreements. A parallel usage
of documents and of mats among Fijian negotiators provides
a heuristic device for exploring questions of pattern
and scale in the aesthetics of negotiation. [documents,
institutions, knowledge, aesthetics, law, transnationalism]
Honor
and Stratification in Pohnpei, Micronesia
Elizabeth Keating
This
article is an investigation of honor in a Micronesian
society, particularly as it is constructed in language.
I argue that honor is a set of practices through which
people organize positive embodied attitudes about social
hierarchy, according particularly high value to acts of
self-depletion. A different notion of the self in the
Pacific has implications for ideas about the universality
of a personal notion of honor and suggests that the common
element in Pohnpeian honor and that described for other
societies is the link between honor and inequality or
stratification. [honor, honorifics, Pohnpei, Pacific Islands,
social stratification, language and culture]
An
Athapaskan Way of Knowing: Chipewyan Ontology
David M. Smith
The
ontology of those Canadian Chipewyan who still actively
hunt, fish, and trap is based on the assumption that one
must maintain a harmonious communication with nature,
especially with animal persons. To this end, emphasis
is placed on paying attention to the full complement of
holistically interacting senses, giving more attention
to the intuitive and affective realms than is typical
for Euro-American ontologies. No single sensorium dominates
metaphorically; greatest validity is given to firsthand,
experiential knowledge attained in waking life or in dreams,
with the powerful stories of the elders serving as guides
to understanding. Chipewyan thought is monistic--there
are no human/nature, mind/body, thought/action, or spirit/matter
dualisms. There is a definite cognitive connection among
the inseparability of the senses, an implicit monistic
philosophy, the understanding that individual can never
be separate from society, social egalitarianism, and the
belief in the need for maintaining harmonious communication
with animal persons. [Chipewyan, ontology, perception,
inkonze, monism]
Tangled
Reconciliations: The Anglican Church and the Nisgs'a of
British Columbia
John Barker
In
the late 1960s, after decades of neglect, the Anglican
Church of Canada rededicated considerable resources to
the Nisga'a, a people with whom it had deep missionary
ties. In this article I examine the nature of this new
relationship and the motivations behind it. The efforts
of the contemporary Anglican Church among the Nisga'a
are best understood, I argue, as an attempt at reconciliation
following a rejection in the national church of earlier
assimilationist projects. The Nisga'a reception of the
church's outreach, however, was born out of a different
process of reconciliation: between indigenous cultural
forms and political needs and aspirations, on the one
hand, and mission Christianity, which had already developed
into a vernacular expression of Christianity in the Nass
valley, on the other. I thus explore the politics of religious
synthesis in the postmissionary world, a synthesis that
occurs simultaneously at local and global levels [northwest
coast, Nisga'a, missions, Christianity, land claims, syncretism]
El
Kiosko Budweiser: The Making of a "National" Television
Show in Puerto Rico
Arlene Dávila
Originally
devised as a marketing tool for Budweiser beer in Puerto
Rico, El Kiosko Budweiser is currently one of the
most popular local television shows. An analysis of the
production and reception of this show provides the basis
for a discussion of its continued popularity and an evaluation
of the processes by which mass media products become vehicles
for the assertion and definition of contemporary identities.
In this article I also question the nature of "national"
television in the current transnational context through
a discussion of the distinct role played by locally produced
commercial programming in the promotion of local artists
and shows, and in the imagining of Puerto Rico as a distinct
national community. [Puerto Rico, popular culture, national
identity, commercial television, advertising]
Reading
the Fools' Mirror: Reconstituting Identity against National
and Transnational Political Practices
Hermine G. De Soto
Previous
identity studies have often been presented within a theoretical
framework that overemphasizes either the micro or macro
context but in which the interaction of both levels is
inadequately considered. In this article I examine the
conflictual relationship between these levels within a
late-modern community in western Germany to show (1) how
these national and transnational contexts affect local
(micro) existence, and (2) how these effects are turned
against national and transnational (macro) economic, political,
and policies. I utilize the concept of ritual practice
to analyze these unbounded relationships and to explore
further how people in a mountainous border village in
the Black Forest employ symbols and history in their regional
carnival. I argue that these ritualistic practices demonstrate
resistance to the national and transnational political
and economic forces and the simultaneous reconstitution
of local identities. [ritualistic practice, European transnational
economic regulations, national policies, western Germany,
identity]
Comments
and Reflections
The
Emperor's New Clothes Removed: A Critique of Besteman's
"Violent Politics and the Politics of Violence"
Bernhard Helander
Some
Comments on Tambiah's Response
Sasanka Perera
A
Word or Two on "Ethics": A Reply to Arboleda and Murray
Roger N. Lancaster
A
Mudfight in Same-Sex Research
Paul Kutsche
A
Response to Kevin Birth
Daniel A. Segal
Constructing
Identities in Trinidad
Aisha Khan
Culture,
Secrets, and Ömie History? "Dissemblance" and the
Wawaga Valley
T. R. Barker
Reviews
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Contexts: Transformations in Anthropological Knowledge (Locher)
Marilyn Strathern, ed.
Counterworks:
Managing the Diversity of Knowledge (Romagosa)
Richard Fardon, ed.
Things
as They Are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology
(Weiss)
Michael Jackson, ed.
Tense
Past: Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory (Weiss)
Paul Antze and Michael Lambek, eds.
Terror
and Taboo: The Follies, Fables and Face of Terrorism (Mahmood)
Joseba Zulaika and William A. Douglass
Anthropology
and Human Movement: The Study of Dances
(Wulff)
Drid Williams, ed.
Moving
Words: Re-Writing Dance (Wulff)
Gay Morris, ed.
Body
Thoughts (Lamb)
Andrew J. Strathern
The
Politics of Cultural Performance (Johnson)
David Parkin, Lionel Caplan, and Humphrey Fischer, eds.
Being
Changed: The Anthropology of Extraordinary Experience
(McCall)
David E. Young and Jean-Guy Goulet, eds.
Anthropology
of Religion: A Handbook (Stewart)
Stephen D. Glazier, ed.
Imagined
Childhoods: Self and Society in Autobiographical Accounts
(Lukose)
Marianne Gullestad, ed.
Consumption
and Everyday Life (Al-Zubaidi)
Hugh Mackay, ed.
Redefining
Nature: Ecology, Culture and Domestication (Sayre)
Roy Ellen and Katsuyoshi Fukui, eds.
The
Anthropology of Tribal and Peasant Pastoral Societies:
The Dialectics of Social Cohesion and Fragmentation
(Wood)
Ugo Fabietti and Philip Carl Salzman, eds.
Human
Nature: A Critical Reader (Kaplan)
Laura Betzig, ed.
Naven
ou le Donner à Voir: Essai D'interprétation
de L'action Rituelle (Strathern)
Michael Houseman and Carlo Severi
Papuan
Borderlands: Huli, Duna, and Ipili Perspectives on the
Papua New Guinea Highlands (Stasch)
Aletta Biersack, ed.
The
Indigenous People of Asia (Locher)
R. H. Barnes, Andrew Gray, and Benedict Kingsbury, eds.
Understanding
Witchkraft and Sorcery in Southeast Asia (Kapferer)
C. W. Watson and Roy Ellen, eds.
The
People of the Alas Valley: A Study of an Ethnic Group
of Northern Sumatra (Rodgers)
Akifumi Iwabuchi
The
Ancestral Lords: Gender, Descent, and Spirits in a Northern
Thai Village (Mills)
Michael R. Rhum
Perspectives
on Chinese Society: Anthropological Views from Japan (Wang)
Suenari Michio, J. S. Eades, and Christina Daniels, eds.
Women
as Subjects: South Asian Histories (Lynch)
Nita Kumar, ed.
Art
and Life in Bangladesh (Yalman)
Henry Glassie
Exploring
Confrontation: Sri Lanka--Politics, Culture and History
(Guneratne)
Michael Roberts
A
People of Migrants: Ethnicity, State and Religion in Karachi
(Ali)
Oskar Verkaaik
Of
Revelation and Revolution: The Dialectics of Modernity
on a South African Frontier (van Dijk)
John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff
Savage
Systems: Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Southern
Africa (Baum)
David Chidester
Citizen
and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Late
Colonialism (Shaw)
Mahmood Mamdani
Women
of Fire and Spirit: History, Faith and Gender in Roho
Religion in Western Kenya (Wood)
Cynthia Hoehler-Fatton
Being
and Becoming Oromo: Historical and Anthropological Enquiries
(Karlstrsm)
P. T. W. Baxter, Jan Hultin, and Alessandro Triulzi, eds.
Gender
Politics in Sudan: Islamism, Socialism, and the State
(Kenyon)
Sondra Hale
African
Families and the Crisis of Social Change (Smith)
Thomas S. Weisner, Candice Bradley, and Philip L. Kilbride,
eds.
Playing
with Time: Art and Performance in Central Mali (Ottenberg)
Mary Jo Arnoldi
Ourselves
and Others: The Development of a Greek Macedonian Cultural
Identity Since 1912 (Hart)
Peter Mackridge and Eleni Yannakakis
Law,
Violence and Community in Classical Athens (Lyons)
David Cohen
Greeks
Bearing Gifts: The Public use of Private Relationships
in the Greek World, 435-353 BC (Lyons)
Lynette G. Mitchell
Politics
and Symbols: The Italian Communist Party and the Fall
of Communism (Minicuci)
David I. Kertzer
Village
Voices: Coexistence and Communication in a Rural Community
in Central France (Reed-Danahay)
Perle Mohl
Embodied
Progress: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception
(Kahn)
Sarah Franklin
México
Profundo: Reclaiming a Civilization (Levi)
Guillermo Bonfil Batalla
History,
Power, and Identity: Ethnogenesis in the Americas, 1492-1992
(Rockefeller)
Jonathan D. Hill, ed.
Maya
Cultural Activism in Guatemala (Hawkins)
Edward F. Fischer and McKenna Brown, eds.
Sister
Jamaica: A Study of Women, Work, and Households in Kingston
(Aymer)
A. Lynn Bolles
Exposing
Prejudice: Puerto Rican Experiences of Language, Race,
and Class (Stinson-Fernandez)
Bonnie Urciuoli
The
Heartland Chronicles (Niezen)
Douglas E. Foley
Los
Pastores: History and Performance in the Mexican Shepherd's
Play of South Texas (Barriga)
Richard R. Flores
Strong
Hearts, Wounded Souls: Native American Veterans of the
Vietnam War (Wagoner)
Tom Holm
Defending
the Land: Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree
Society (Harkin)
Ronald Niezen
The
Heiltsuks: Dialogues of Culture and History on the Northwest
Coast (Buckley)
Michael E. Harkin
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